[LINK] IPv6 doomed

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Glen Turner wrote:
> Scott Howard wrote:
> 
>> Will ISP's give customers 1 address, or an entire /56?  Will the ISP do DHCP
>> for multiple CPE devices, will they use IPv6 auto-configure, or neither?
>> Tunnelled or native? Persistent IP addresses, or not? etc, etc...
> 
> /64, so that autoconf works. Stateless DHCP6 so that the ISP
> doesn't need to grow DHCP servers with the number of customers.
> DNS servers on the well-known anycast addresses, ditto NTP,
> those are the addresses served up by stateless DHCP6.
> 
> Native packets, delivered over PPPOE. Using IPv6-over-IPv4 somewhat
> misses the point.
> 
> Dynamic addressing, as this allows simple fail-over of customers from
> one BRAS to another. In fact the main BRAS and its backup can advertise
> simultaneously to the customer subnet, allowing instant failover.
> 
> 
> It's all obvious once you've played with IPv6 a little bit. It just
> seems to me that people at vendors and most ISPs have left this to
> the last moment. One good point made at AusNOG was the lack of lobbying
> of government by some ISP industry body of government to enforce some
> IPv6 adoption. The banks manage to do this (thus BASEL2 accounting
> standards, etc) and so to many other industries.
> 
> Our government communications regulator seems to lack the experience
> to back itself -- and seems deeply scarred by the OSI fiasco where
> they lacked experience and mistakenly backed themselves. Now they
> are committing the reverse error (and not just with IPv6, but with
> on-island peering of Australia's major ISPs).
> 

Except in Queensland, where they are insourcing and centralising their IT to CITEC
(see Report on Review of ICT Governance in the Queensland Government - Service
Delivery and Performance Commission - September 2006
<http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:fY9KjU1QltEJ:www.thepremier.qld.gov.au/sdpc/library/pdf/ict/sdpc_ict_report_toc.pdf+CITEC+CTO&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=au&client=firefox-a>),
there seem to be limited technical skills in government agencies, which rely
on vendors/service providers for advice. And then there is a need to integrate
across  vendors/service providers.

And ofcourse there is AARNET - perhaps this government will set up new advisory
panels.

Marghanita
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